Our Weekend Events

Can you find the diver?

Joshua and me

Jim and Josiah at the horseshoe crab tank

The kids

The kids under an aquarium

This weekend we went to Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg as an extended birthday weekend event. We had never been before and we weren't disappointed. We had a blast touching sting rays, horseshoe crabs and going through the shark lagoon. We all enjoyed the variety of sea creatures they had were amazed at the number and size of tanks in the aquarium.

You may wonder how we can afford to take our family there. Well, if you homeschool you can get the homeschool discount. Just bring in your homeschool ID and that's it. We would have not been able to go except for this discount. All the more reason why it's good to homeschool. It was a fun weekend event as well as a field trip :)

Hope you had a fun filled weekend. The weather was great and it was great to get out and enjoy the day.

Frugal Weekend Activities

Ahead of time, I decided to do some research this weekend to find out what was going on for our frugal family. I was excited to find out that Home Depot was doing their Kids Workshop. I always forget until after the fact. But this time, we made it. The kids got the chance to make rain gauges. I think they are cute and I'm glad that I remembered to take them. They also got aprons that they adorn their pins on each time they complete a project. For those of you like me who forget when things happen because you have so many other things on your mind, you can find great websites to help you. If you live in the Knoxville, TN area you can visit couponkatie.com for all kinds of frugal ideas. I wanted to take the family to Bruster's this past weekend because it was PJ Day but we were not in town while they were open. I love finding free things to do, don't you?

So maybe I'll post what we do on the weekends that are cheap and give you an idea of how we can still go out without costing us and arm and a leg. Maybe it will help you find things to do too.